In post-Soviet Russia, you don’t make memes. Memes make (or unmake?) you. That is, at least, the only conclusion we can draw from an announcement made this week by Russia’s three-year-old media agency/Internet censor Roskomnadzor, which made it illegal to publish any Internet meme that depicts a public figure in a way that has nothing to do with his “personality.”

‘Utilities that help bridge the gap between Java 8 and Google Guava. Guava has the {@link FluentIterable} concept which is similar to streams. In many ways, fluent iterable is nicer, because it directly binds to the immutable collection classes. However, on balance it seems wise to use the stream API rather than {@code FluentIterable} in Java 8.’